Description: OUR DREAM REALIZED -WALLY FUNK- BLUE ORIGIN - ORIGINAL Tim Gagnon - NASA Commemorative SPACE PATCH - EACH PATCH IS SIGNED and NUMBERED BY TIM GAGNON - 'Our Dream Realized' commemorative patch On the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, a pioneering woman aviator flew to space aboard a commercial spacecraft thus realizing a 60 year old dream of spaceflight. In this design I imagine the view out the spacecraft window, a "Mercury 13" lapel pin floats in micro-gravity. In the early 1960s, Dr. William Lovelace’s "Woman in Space Program" was a short-lived, privately-funded project testing women pilots for astronaut fitness. Although nothing concrete resulted, the women who participated have since been recognized as trailblazers, whose ambitions to fly the newest and the fastest craft led them to be among the first American women to gain access to sophisticated aerospace medical tests. Those women were considered at the time to be the "First Lady Astronaut Trainees." In the end, thirteen women passed the same physical examinations that the Lovelace Foundation had developed for NASA’s astronaut selection process. In 1995, when NASA's first woman pilot was launched into space, she invited the surviving members of the "FLATS" to her launch. The term "The Mercury 13" was coined by a Hollywood producer as a comparison to the Mercury Seven name given to the original male astronauts. The Mercury 13 women were not part of NASA's astronaut program, never flew in space as part of a NASA mission, and never met as a whole group. This however doesn't diminish the fact that (given the same training), they COULD have performed as well as the Mercury 7 THIS - ORIGINAL - FULLY EMBROIDERED - TIM GAGNON - Commemorative PATCH IS - 4" x 4.5" - AND IS IN - MINT - CONDITIONTHANKS FOR LOOKING, I WILL BE HAPPY TO COMBINE ITEMS TO SAVE ON SHIPPING **** PLEASE CHECK OUT OUR - EBAY STORE - AND OTHER EBAY AUCTIONS **** A LOT MORE GREAT PATCHES, CHALLENGE COINS, FLOWN MEDALLIONS, AND INCREDIBLE AUTOGRAPHED NASA PHOTOSNASA LITHOS AND SPACE COLLECTIBLES ARE LISTED ****PLEASE KEEP WATCHING, WE ARE ADDING NEW ITEMS DAILY****
Price: 14.95 USD
Location: Fullerton, California
End Time: 2023-12-13T03:27:14.000Z
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Type: NASA Patch
Space Program: NASA
Theme: Astronauts & Space Travel
